This looks like a crazy hybrid crossed three times, unable to reproduce. The haunches and implied vaulting ability is something we don't have in our known stock.
The key is to isolate the haunch (and hunch) genes. Mini-kangaroo X wolverine?
Posted on 04/02/2014 9:23:39 PM PDT by Rebelbase
RATCLIFFE, Texas — Deep in the back woods of South Texas, you never know what might be lurking around the corner, or in your tree.
“He saw this strange animal up here eating corn,” Jackie Stock said.
In Ratcliffe, a small town in DeWitt County, residents are certain they've found the mythical, despicable chupacabra, and this time, it's alive.
Ratcliffe Resident Jackie Stock said her husband caught the creature Sunday night.
“He called me to come and look, and I said ‘Bubba that looks like a baby chupacabra,’” Stock said.
With its hairless back, large claws, countless teeth and ferocious growl, many would say this animal fits the bill.
“I hunted coons for 20 years with dogs and I ain’t ever seen anything that looks like that right there,” Ratcliffe resident Arlen Parma said.
Parma said one of the biggest signs it's not a raccoon is its growl.
“A coon doesn’t make that noise, or a possum. What makes that noise? I guess a chupacabra does,” Parma said.
Most people in DeWitt County are convinced this is the elusive chupacabra, but what do wildlife experts have to say?
“The animal in the cage as best I can tell from the view is some sort of a small canine,” Brent Ortego, Wildlife Diversity Biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, said.
Ortego said a canine can include a coyote, dog, or even a fox. He said the animal most likely has mange which has caused it to lose its hair. But as for a chupacabra, he thinks otherwise.
“It's never been proven to be a unique species. It was always something out there that allegedly was said to cause harm to people or livestock,” Ortego said.
Chupacabra or not, right now this little guy is staying at the Stock household, living off a diet of cat food and corn, at least until someone can find out what it really is.
“We were just trying to figure out what it is because we've never seen anything like it before,” Stock said.
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Use you imagination and put a very thick coat of fur on him and you have a adult raccoon....IMO
But test to see for sure...But I would wager on it...:-)
I’m more impressed with the finding of a Redneck Couple in their natural habitat than the trapping of a chupacabra......
I hope these people keep it, and we can watch it grow into the world’s biggest bald raccoon.
How can the so-called expert call this a damn dog, when the heck have you ever seen dog eat with it front paws in the same manner as human fingers, this creature ain’t no canine!
It's really a relative of human scabies. I am sure the family will likely end up with it as it crosses over to humans if it is the same stuff we have in Arkansas and Louisiana. Some varities can only bite humans and not multiply, others can infest either..
I have the buggers on top of my roof every year....entire families of them...and they don't generally like me much.
Do you think they could put it in a larger cage? It looks cramped.
This looks like a crazy hybrid crossed three times, unable to reproduce. The haunches and implied vaulting ability is something we don't have in our known stock.
The key is to isolate the haunch (and hunch) genes. Mini-kangaroo X wolverine?
Looks like three videos ran together. First animal I can’t tell, second looks like a coyote, and the dead one also looks like a coyote to me.
Dogs usually run with their tails arched up, wolves with their tails held horizontal, and coyotes with their tails straight but slanting downward.
In my opinion, some folks are stretching the bounds of reality to find some reasonable explanation for what this thing is. I don't know what it is either, but I'm not willing to call it what it isn't.
I base this on my own personal experience with mange in canines. I have to use a lot of hydrocortizone and vitamins to get the animals skin back into decent condition.
As to the haunches....lol...not much of a skeletal expert. raccoons sit up a lot on their haunches. They sit like a baby in a way....this one seemed to do that in the vid I saw. He also knew to grab the cage wires...and the growl was unmistakable..
Don't think so. The snout is much too long and pointy, and the eyes are way too huge. Even the ears are the wrong shape and size for a raccoon.
I'm not making any bets on what this is. It doesn't match any type of animal I'm familiar with.
Whatever it is, do not try to pet or hand feed it.
Historically all these deformed hairless creatures always turn out to be coyotes, foxes (grey or red) or dogs...
Frankly I have never seen one that ended up a raccoon, but there is always a first time....lol
Most people have never seen one without its coat on.
Well....isn’t the internet a fabulous thing!
It’s likely an entirely new species, with the intelligence of a fox and the spring of a kangaroo.
Probably even smarter than a wolf.
I dont think its a coon....either
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